How to Scale Your Company – In Just 7 Minutes with Allison Maslan
Find out how to avoid becoming the “forgotten entrepreneur” in the long run Learn how to make more time for yourself through building a team-managed business Understand why the same strategies and practices you did at the beginning is not going to work now Resources/Links: To get more FREE advice and some promising tips and tricks to scale up your business, click here: scalemasterclass.com Summary Do you always end up spending more time with your business and lesser time doing what you love doing? Have you felt like you’ve lost yourself in the process of handling and building your business? Are you ready to find out the promising tips and tricks on how to scale up your business and be everyone’s go-to entrepreneur? Allison Maslan is the Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Author of “Scale or Fail”. She has built 10 companies since age 19 and she is the founder of Pinnacle Global Network, where she and her team of mentors guide CEOs to scale their companies and create a more meaningful life. Dive in into this episode with Allison and get a grip on how to avoid being the “forgotten entrepreneur” and grow your business beyond you and into so much more! Check out these episode highlights: 01:20 - Allison’s ideal client: There's a lot of support out there for the start-up business owner. But once you've been in business for a good period of time, I say you're the "Forgotten Entrepreneur". 01:59 - The problem he helps solve: What happens when you get that, you hit the ceiling, and you think that just working harder and focusing more is the answer, and maybe you'll get incremental growth. But to really take the big leaps, you have to shift into a more scalable model. 02:52 - The symptoms of the problem: At that level, and we call this "phase three" in the Scale-Up method, we call it the "ringleader". You're the ringleader. You have a circus going on. And you are micromanaging everyone. 03:47 - Clients’ common mistakes before consulting Allison: they really are control freaks at this point-- very, very hard to let go. It's just the hardest thing. 04:41 - Allison’s Valuable Free Action (VFA): The first thing I would do is pull out your calendar and really look at it and ask yourself, "Do I really need to be in all of these meetings or places and doing all these tasks?" 05:42 - Allison’s Valuable Free Resource (VFR): To get more FREE advice and some promising tips and tricks to scale up your business, click here: scalemasterclass.com 06:22 - Q: How do you actually have a meaningful life and create a life of purpose while you're growing and scaling your business? A: The answer is that you have probably forgotten these things. You might have had it at the beginning of your business, but you lost yourself in the business. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “Get the support so that you can scale the business and have a life. You absolutely deserve it!” -Allison MaslanClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland 00:10 Welcome, everyone, to another edition of Marketing the Invisible. I'm Tom Poland beaming out to you from the Sunshine Coast in Australia, joined today by Allison Maslan. Allison, good day from down under. A very warm welcome! Where are you hanging out? Allison Maslan 00:22 I am in San Diego and the sun is shining,